Word Meanings - FEDERAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives. The Romans compelled them, contrary

Additional info about word: FEDERAL

1. Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives. The Romans compelled them, contrary to all federal right, . . . to part with Sardinia. Grew. 2. Specifically: Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland. Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer. Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist. Federal Congress. See under Congress.

Related words: (words related to FEDERAL)

• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• CONSTITUTION
  1. The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation. 2. The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes
• CONTRARY
  Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical;
• COMPACTEDLY
  In a compact manner.
• LEAGUE
  lieue, Pr. lega, legua, It. & LL. lega, Sp. legua, Pg. legoa, legua; all fr. LL. leuca, of Celtic origin: cf. Arm. leo, lev (perh. from French), Ir.leige ; also Ir. & Gael. leac a flag, a broad, flat stone, W. llech, -- such stones having perh.
• COMPELLATION
  Style of address or salutation; an appellation. "Metaphorical compellations." Milton. He useth this endearing compellation, "My little children." Bp. Beveridge. The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by "Sire," which is nothing else
• CONSTITUTIVE
  1. Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential. An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue. Barrow. 2. Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DERIVATIONAL
  Relating to derivation. Earle.
• DERIVATION
  The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. (more info) 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. T. Burnet. 2.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• COMPELLABLE
  Capable of being compelled or constrained. Blackstone.
• COMPACTNESS
  The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.
• COMPACTION
  The act of making compact, or the state of being compact. Bacon.
• COMPELLER
  One who compels or constrains.
• LEAGUERER
  A besieger. J. Webster.
• COMPELLATIVE
  The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.
• DERIVEMENT
  That which is derived; deduction; inference. I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu.
• BELEAGUERER
  One who beleaguers.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• DISCOVENANT
  To dissolve covenant with.
• COLLEAGUE
  A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures. Syn. -- Helper; assistant; coadjutor; ally; associate; companion; confederate. (more info) time with another, a
• INLEAGUER
  To beleaguer. Holland.
• BELEAGUER
  To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow. Syn. -- To block up; environ; invest; encompass. (more info) Dan. beleire); pref. be- = E. be- + leger bed, camp, army,
• PRIMROSE LEAGUE
  A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in 1883. So called because primrose was taken to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.
• HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
  A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay